Curve articles from November 2003

Curve archives from November 2003

What's in your drink?(frankly speaking)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Kicking around San Francisco on a lively Friday night, I decided to grab a drink with five gal pals at a popular Castro dance bar. The place was filled to capacity with queer boys and girls, all vying for a spot on the tiny dance floor and...

Streetwise.(Out in Front)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Last spring, Carrie Stone and Elisia Ross, founders of the online resource Rainbow Law, began a cross-country bike ride to publicize the need for lesbians and gay men to do our own legal planning in the absence of laws that protect our...

Bush out of our house!(letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... Baffled, confused, irritated and mad are a few words that describe how I feel when I think of how narrow-minded people elected to office can be. Not only do I have to live my life in a racially biased country and try to teach my kids that they...

Where are the deaf lesbians?(letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... CURVE has covered all sorts of issues--except lesbians who are deaf. The deaf community is small, but deaf lesbians are a part of the lesbian community. Just to clarify: Many deaf people don't identify themselves as "handicapped." There are...

Up in arms.(letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... In Diane Anderson-Minshall's interview (Vol. 13, #5), Iyari Limon is photographed wearing a T-shirt depicting a woman holding an M-16. As a combat veteran, my gut reaction was: If you're ready to accept the moral and psychological consequences...

Impulse buy makes good.(letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... I signed up for a subscription to CURVE at Atlanta Pride. It was very much an impulse thing, 'cause I'm not much of a magazine reader. But I sat down last night and read my first copy, and I liked it. Which is hard for me to say, because I'm a...

A native legacy.(letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... I am a 45-year-old straight father of three who lives in Ottawa, Canada (surprise!). I have been researching two-spirited Native Americans because my son is gay, and my wife is full-blooded Cree from James Bay, Ontario. What I have found out...

Conjunction junction.(ask fairy butch)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dear Fairy Butch: My girlfriend has lost interest in sex. She was always very sexual throughout the years we've been together, but she stopped just after she was sent to the hospital with high blood pressure. Since then, she doesn't even...

Calling the tots: baby-naming trends.(curvatures)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... In recent months, there has been much buzz around American baby-naming trends, triggered, no doubt, by a report released annually by the Social Security Administration that documents the most popular names in their registry. We at CURVE wanted...

Hey! Baby.(Brief Article)(Interview)
November 1, 2003... Jess Snodgrass, 21, lives in Pittsburgh. She is active in the movement to change the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival's policy against transsexual women. Can you give us a brief history of the MWMF trans policy? In 1991, a woman was kicked...

The Barbie factor.(Truth and Consequences)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Barbie sure has been chasing up trouble lately. First, artist Tom Forsythe's innovative "Food Chain Barbie" series of photographs depicting the blonde one being baked, shaken, stirred and blended in various kitchen appliances caused a ruckus...

Dykes on parade.(Truth and Consequences)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The ACLU and the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County are fuming over the way officials in Costa Mesa, Calif., have treated organizers of an Orange County dyke march. Seems the city imposed unreasonable and...

Too cool for school.(Truth and Consequences)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... A New York state senator and a conservative legal group have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the opening of New York City's Harvey Milk High School, a public high school for LGBT students. Opponents argue that the school violates laws that...

When we're 64.(Truth and Consequences)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... The Australian government had a bright idea recently--they recommended older women become lesbian as a way to stave off loneliness and isolation. Relationships Australia, a government-funded public agency, pointed out that "As they get over 60,...

Google gobble.(out on the Web)
November 1, 2003... WHO NEEDS TO SPEND HER BUSY November surfing the Web for help with the holidays? Below: three simple ways to make it all come together. Thanks www.egreetings.com Search the Web for gay-themed e-cards, and you're likely to be hit...

Ready, set, go.(horoscopes)
November 1, 2003... HOW EXCITING IS IT THAT THE holidays are just around the corner? Not very, you say? The weather outside is frightful, and you've spent all your gift money on cover charges and bar tabs? Don't fret. You have a full month before you have to worry...

Autumn's cinematic smorgasbord.(sapphic screen)
November 1, 2003... Girls on Top Reese was back in the gay-helmed Legally Blonde 2, Peta Wilson did Dracula proud in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Debbie Harry played gay in Spun (all now on DVD), but the best female performance last summer came...

Megan Holley.(Q&A)(Interview)
November 1, 2003... Lesbian-written, lesbian-produced, and lesbian-cast, The Snowflake Crusade has to be the year's queerest straight film. This deftly comic sociopolitical film about DNA, sperm banks and personal destiny features Leisha Hailey on-screen, with...

Throwing shade: a Q&A with Kristin Hersh.(Interview)
November 1, 2003... Of all the injustices in the world, which have directly affected you or people in your life? OK, I'll pick an injustice that's bugging me today: the fact that the music industry has prevented an entire generation of people from hearing...

Women to watch in film.(women)
November 1, 2003... I'd be the first to claim Nina Jacobson as a cinematic lesbian's dream. President of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Jacobson greenlit the summer's biggest (and girl-friendliest) hits Freaky Friday (with Jamie Lee Curtis) and Finding Nemo...

Dangerous mix: date-rape drugs: not just a straight thing any more.
November 1, 2003... "Woman Raped After Leaving Bar," the April announcement declared, following an alleged incident outside a lesbian-frequented San Francisco dance club known for its mixed LGBT crowd. A visitor to the city reported that after feeling sick and...

Everything old is new again.(lesbofile)
November 1, 2003... HALLOOOOO! GATHER 'ROUND, MY little gossip biscuits, it's feeding time, and dolls, have I got a feast for you! It's a good thing, because I was starting to feel like everything fresh was all played out, yo. That's the way it goes here in...

Quote unquote.
November 1, 2003... "It is so important that in my music I do convey positive images, and this song is definitely a universal message that everybody can, I think, relate to. Anyone that's been discriminated against or unaccepted, unappreciated or disrespected...

Star power.(music watch)(Sound Recording Review)
November 1, 2003... Dolly Parton Ultimate Dolly Parton BMG/RCA If you glide onto the Dollywood Web site, you'll note Parton's amusement park recently added a water slide. More important, you'll catch a glimpse of the country queen sporting a wet...

Tegan and Sara.(Q&A)(Interview)
November 1, 2003... TEGAN AND SARA QUIN, TWIN SISTERS FROM CALGARY, HAVE TWO guitars, two distinct voices and one unique punk-pop-rock sound. They began playing guitar and writing songs in their mother's garage when they were 15. Now 23, they have two albums under...

Riding the waves.(dyke drama)
November 1, 2003... I'VE READ ABOUT SAILING THE South Pacific, cave-diving in Belize, whiskey-making in Scotland. If you've been there, I've read about it. I don't get around too much myself. It's about money. It's about time. It's mostly about money. I live too...

Words to watch out for.(in the stacks)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Ann-Marie MacDonald The Way the Crow Flies HarperCollins $26.95 Canadian author and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald scored a big hit a few years back with her scrumptiously written family epic Fall on Your Knees. One of my all-time...

Jennifer Karlin & Amelia Borofsky.(Q&A)(Interview)
November 1, 2003... JENNIFER KARLIN AND AMELIA BOROFSKY SAY THAT WHEN THEY graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999, it was "like finding ourselves transformed into Kafka's infamous insect." In a strange new world of fusion cuisine, the electronic revolution,...

The limits of family.(brownworth)
November 1, 2003... MY MOTHER DIED THIS SUMMER, unexpectedly, after a brief illness. Her death certificate lists "complications of aspiration pneumonia" as the cause of death, a catchall diagnosis used by doctors when a patient has suffocated from lack of oxygen....